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By fear Liszewski

It looks aforementioned Bodum’s summary assignment to remuneration every kitchen a colorful makeover continues with their Bistro Flatbed Toaster. Like the company’s conventional toasters this help is acquirable in 8 assorted smart colors, but different their customary toasters there’s no slots on this one, foregather a unsullied poise flat cooktop that uses a 700-watt obliteration environment to pledge slot-unfriendly items aforementioned croissants, baguettes and remaining dish slices.

There’s a eventual alter allowing you to avow the avow of browning, and when not in ingest the Flatbed Toaster crapper be stored on its side, freeing up furnishings space. They become to be acquirable on the Bodum UK place for most $98 after timing conversion, but it looks aforementioned Hammacher sells them as substantially for $89.95.

[ Bodum Bistro Flatbed Toaster ] VIA [ bookofjoe ]

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By fear Liszewski

The incoming instance you go shopping for kitchen appliances you capableness poverty to conceive a closing another than unsullied steel, shiny black or chrome. Of code activity can be a chanceful abstract in the criminal hands, but the Bistro distinction of toasters from Bodum become in digit of 8 assorted significance that control to be light and entertained but not blindingly tacky. And it’s no droop when it comes to cosmos a protagonist either with 900 watts of noesis to dead brown your clams or bagel, adjustable slots, a pop-up hot demolition and a heat-resistant foam exterior that stays add to the contact and is cushy to clean. $79.95 from Sur La Table.

[ Bodum Bistro 2-Slice Toaster ] VIA [ The Kitchen ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

For some people, taking a sports car like a Lamborghini Reventón for a test drive is the ultimate dream, but I’m sure there are others who are more thrilled at the prospect of watching Searching For Bobby Fischer or seeing Garry Kasparov challenge IBM’s Deep Blue again. And oddly enough, Lamborghini has just the thing for that latter group as well.

This silver chess set by Tonino Lamborghini (son of Ferruccio Lamborghini) comes packaged in a well-appointed wooden case complete with protective storage slots for the pieces that are actually differentiated on either side of the board by their high-polish or matte finishes. And given the Reventón’s $1.6 million price tag, $395 for this chess set seems like quite the deal.

[ Tonino Lamborghini Silver Chess Set ] VIA [ Cool Material ]

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This year’s edition of the Hitachi Wooo line of flat panels look a lot like their predecessors on the outside (120Hz IPS LCDs, 250GB HDD equipped models with iVDR slots for additional hard drives and Wooonet DLNA network support) but it’s what’s inside that counts. The four new XP plasma models range from 42- to 50-inches and promise even better contrast ratios, as high as 40,000:1, with better color reproduction and the promise of greater energy efficiency. The ultra-thin 35mm / 1.4-inch thick LCDs are back in four new models, with UWB wirelessly connected tuners, auto sensing/adjusting brightness and aforementioned “eco” power sipping improvements. The relatively fat XP line of LCDs consists of just three displays, but just like all the rest, buyers can still hook up to the ‘net and pull down video on-demand or Yahoo! Japan’s web TV portal — features unlikely to make the jump when we see U.S. versions of these later this year. The XP plasmas and LCDs go on sale in Japan later this month or next, while the ultra-thins will be crash dieting until October.

Read – Hitachi, recording double-35mm-thin LCD TV “Wooo UT800″
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Some more tidbits from the Acer event: new all-in-ones. The eMachines EZ1600 (pictured) boasts a 18.5-inch 16:9 screen and up to 720p resolution, an Intel Atom N270 processor with 945GSE chipset, 2 slots of SO DIMM memory, up to 160GB HDD, DVD-RW, Wi-Fi and a card reader. No price or availability, but you’ll be able to pick one up in either silver or black. On the classier side of things, we’ve got Acer Aspire Z5600 AIO with a 24-inch multitouch display that outputs a 1080p picture. It’s got the “latest generation of Intel,” up to 2TB hard disk space, a TV tuner, webcam and DVD/Blu-ray writer combo drive. Color us intrigued, but we’ll await judgment until we see some price points — if the Timeline’s any indication, we might be in a for a pleasant surprise.
Gallery: Acer’s 18-inch eMachines EZ1600, 24-inch multitouch Aspire Z5600 all-in-ones unveiled

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by Shane McGlaun

I am a big fan of PC gaming and if you have ever compared graphics on games available on PC and console systems when the PC is well equipped, it is easy to see the graphics on PC are much better. The rub for many PC gamers is that the hardware costs much more than buying a game console. The video cards alone often cast more than an Xbox and a Wii put together.

NVIDIA has announced a new mid-range video card called the GTX 275 that puts good performance into the hands of gamers looking to spend about $250. Sure, that’s still more than a Wii, but you can do so much more on a computer than you can on the Wii. The GTX 275 slots into the lineup between the GTX 260 and GTX 285 in price and performance.

The card offers 240 processing cores running at 1404MHz, 80 texture processing units and a 448-bit memory interface with 896MB framebuffer. The card is NVIDIA PhysX and CUDA compliant and supports Windows 7. NVIDIA 3D Vision stereoscopic gaming is supported as well. The exact availability date isn’t offered, NVIDIA just says that the card will be available on or before April 14.

[ NVIDIA ]

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We can’t say there are an awful lot of folks out there looking for a single mobile broadband card that’ll play nice in both PC Card and ExpressCard slots, but for that niche that’s intently paying attention, have a look at this. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 402 is the company’s first to offer such 2-in-1 functionality, and it’s designed to operate on EV-DO Rev. A networks handling speeds of up to 3.1Mbps (downlink) / 1.8Mbps (uplink). Users can also bank on the company’s TRU-Locate GPS service to “quickly and accurately establish location for local searches and navigation.” There’s no mention of a price or release date, but it should be on hand for us to peer at during CTIA this week.

[Via ExpressCard-Info]